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i wish i was less tired and headachey today when i received the best critique of my art in my whole life. i was so proud. dustin, designated professor/art type, kept insisting that i ditch interior design and persue art. i wish someone encouraged that to me as a child, instead of discouraging studying art in college. no one said i'd actually do it ( Read more... ) -
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summer, you have it figured out. you know how to keep us interested, in love. year after year, we look forward to your arrival and we're sad to see you go. you're like the most popular kid in school ( Read more... ) -
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I don't love you as if you were the salt-rose, topaz
or arrow of carnations that propagate fire:
I love you as certain dark things are loved,
secretly, between the shadow and the soul.
I love you as the plant that doesn't bloom and carries
hidden within itself the light of those flowers,
and thanks to your love, darkly in my body
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i had more of a life as a 15-16 year old. FUCK THAT i'm not an old woman yet. god damn. -
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i miss hearing basketballs bouncing instead of sirens and buses. that's all. -
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ohhhhh kaaaaay. hiii 2008. it might be safe to say that 2007 was the most important year of my life. life altering, eventful, monumental. i found my path in college. within the first week of the new year i was celebrating a change of major that majorly changed my life. with this change i gained confidence, i found my niche, and began to realize my ( Read more... ) -
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i'll remember what's most important, and what this time of year is all about. it's not about gifts and christmas lights. it's about smiling at a stranger, letting someone go in front of you in traffic. patience, love, friends, family. once a year, why dont we put greed and hatred aside. (that would be unusual) stop bitching. be grateful for what ( Read more... ) -
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When my time has come
and impermanence and death have caught up with me,
When the breath ceases, and the body and mind go their separate ways,
May I not experience delusion, attachment, and clinging,
But remain in the natural state of ultimate reality.
tibetan nyingma master - longchenpa rabjampa - 14th century -
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I desire neither earthly kingdom,
nor even freedom from birth and death.
I desire only the deliverance from grief
of all those afflicted by misery.
Oh Lord, lead us from the unreal to the real;
from darkness to light;
from death to immortality.
May there be peace in celestial regions.
May there be peace on earth.
May the waters be appeasing.
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When I am liberated by silence,
when I am no longer involved
in the measurement of life, but in the living of it,
I can discover a form of prayer in which
there is effectively no distraction.
My whole life becomes a prayer.
My whole silence is full of prayer.
The world of silence in which I am immersed
contributes to my prayer.
thomas merton